Category Archives: Media
NFL Labor Hardly Slavery
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By DERON SNYDER The average NFL fan can’t identify too closely with NFL players — and certainly not NFL owners. But most fans know what it means to work and receive a paycheck, regardless of how little they get in … Continue reading
Mike Tomlin Finally Getting Some Respect
By DERON SNYDER Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin got straight A’s at Denbigh High School in Newport News, Va., and he competed deep into statewide academic competitions. But he never let his football teammates know about his book smarts … Continue reading
Lopsided ‘Signing Day’ Unjustly Binds Players Only
By DERON SNYDER Wednesday was “National Signing Day” for the country’s football-playing high school seniors. It’s a virtual national holiday in the world of sports, an occasion that’s grown to garner wall-to-wall TV coverage and up-to-the minute Web updates. The … Continue reading
Venus’ Hoochie Outfits Distract, Detract
By DERON SNYDER Venus Williams’ rise from the rough streets of Compton, Calif., to become a world-champion tennis player is an incredible, inspiring tale. Along with her sister Serena, Venus Williams has smashed the country-club stereotype with a force harder … Continue reading
Hair Today, ‘Gone’ Tomorrow
When I took a buyout from Gannett in July 2009 – after nearly a quarter-century as a fulltime journalist with the company – I also decided to cut off my shoulder-length dreadlocks that took eight years to grow. In the … Continue reading
The Re-Invention of Tiger Woods
We can only imagine what Thanksgiving was like last year in the Tiger Woods household, which since then has shrunk from a family of four to a bachelor pad. A National Enquirer story on Woods and New York cocktail hostess … Continue reading
Justice Thomas’ House Out Of Order
I don’t what’s happened between Clarence Thomas and his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas. But he must have really pissed her off. That’s the only explanation for bringing so much unwanted and unnecessary attention to the Supreme Court Justice. Either that … Continue reading
The Root’s ‘Confab’
This week on “The Confab,” theRoot.com’s weekly podcast, managing editor Joel Dreyfuss, senior editor Teresa Wiltz, and contributing writer Deron Snyder discussed: “The Root 100,” and what it tells us about the positive side of black America; the peculiar racial politics of … Continue reading
Missing Nose Opens Our Eyes
You can tell that the 18-year-old Afghan on Time’s cover this week was beautiful. And once you get past her grotesque disfiguration – courtesy of the Taliban – Aisha is still a beautiful young lady. Not only that, she displays … Continue reading
Blacker Berries And Bitter Juice
By DERON SNYDER Here we go again. Just two months after ESPN’s The Fab Five documentary sparked a controversy involving Jalen Rose and Grant Hill, we’ve suffered another instance of black athletes sorting our dirty laundry in public. This time … Continue reading →